Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.

When searching for a missing person, I’ll canvas the area. Like a painter. I make love like Bob Ross, only your happy tree is happier, and I’ll keep your coffee warm—in my stomach.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye….

If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer … I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and...

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

You can’t memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning...

If it sells, it’s art.

Do the thing that scares you.

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what...

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to...

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under...

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself.

An artist’s work is one long conversation with life.

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

You don’t create or write to be successful; you don’t create or paint to be famous or to increase your wealth. You do all of these things because your soul is calling you to do...

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn’t an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it – pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers...

You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that’s the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous.

Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else.

An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing sketchy pages, to have followed her advice rather too well.

I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based...

Morala constituie pentru arta o primejdie pe care multi o subestimeaza, arta se apropie mai mult de natura, prin cruzimea ei infantila, decat morala, care e creatia spiritului uman matur, impins de nevoia de a...

Without a doubt,I must read,all the booksI’ve read about.See the artworkshung on hooks,that I have only,seen in books.

If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something.

It’s great. For a curator, the two great thrills are, first, finding and acquiring real monuments of art. The other part is being able to hang them.

What is aesthetically beautiful, should not be able to be understood fully: by its mysterious character it should leave behind a vaguely pleasant feeling.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Passing from legality to subversion, the need of finding a minimum stimulus with a maximum effect appears—an effect that through its impact justifies the risk taken and pays for it. During certain historical periods, at...

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.

The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.

Talent is an art of gaining admiration!

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.

All that you need in the way of technique for drawing is bound up in thetechnique of seeing – that is, of understanding, which after all is mainlydependent on feeling. If you attempt to see...

In one of the Upanishads it says, when the glow of a sunset holds you and you say ‘Aha,’ that is the recognition of the divinity. And when you say ‘Aha’ to an art object,...

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Sadly, many storytellers and artists are still addicted to the old delusions (happy is boring, evil is interesting) about the risks of good mental health. Even those who don’t view peace of mind as a...

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Are you a born writer? Were you put on earth to be a painter, a scientist, an apostle of peace? In the end the question can only be answered by action.Do it or don’t do...

The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it’s allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored...

To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.

Building your “dream life” is filled with things that can feel like the opposite of a dream:MistakesDelaysStarting overFailureThe building part is actually more of a rebuilding that is a continual process. The building is not...

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.